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Panola County Historical & Genealogical Association

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  • Resources
  • Community Involvement
  • Gallery
  • Old Red Review Newsletter
  • Research for You
    • Contact Us

Panola County Resources

  • Detailed History of Panola County by Circulating Book Club 1935-1936 (This link is an only available to Ancestry members.)
  • FREE Panola Watchman Newspapers Online, UNT Portal to TX History
  • Newspapers.com
  • Panola County TX - Stephen F. Austin University
  • Sammy Brown Library
  • Panola College Library Special Collections
  • Carthage, TX
  • Panola County Chamber of Commerce
  • Panola County, TX
  • Panola College Special Collections
  • East Texas Genealogy Society
  • Texas GenWeb Project Panola County, TX
  • Panola County Texas Historical Markers
  • Panola Co. TX Births 1930 - 1995
  • Texas State Historical Assoc. Panola County
  • Panola County TX Veterans Relief Fund
  • History of Beckville, TX
  • U.S. GenWebArchives
  • Family Search Panola County
  • Free Genealogy Web Sources
  • Civil War Archives
  • Genealogy Forms & Charts
  • Lone Star Genealogy
  • Texas Vital Records
  • Panola County, TX
  • Panola County TX History
  • TX Genealogy Trails, Panola County TX
  • Panola County TX Clerk Records
  • DeBerry, TX
  • Gary, TX
  • The Loblolly, Gary ISD, Lincoln King
  • Historical Gary TX
  • Beckville, TX
  • History of Beckville, TX
  • Fairplay, TX Facts & History
  • Rock Hill, Panola Co. TX
  • Riderville Panola Co., TX
  • Jasper Collins - Lawyer, Panola Watchman Editor & Proprietor, Texas Representative 1899
  • Tom Bowers - First Publisher of The Panola Watchman
  • 150 Years of The Panola Watchman Newspapers
  • Gary, TX
  • Loblolly - Carthage High School Baseball
  • East Texas Digital Archives (Stephen F. Austin University)

Oral History Links

  • SFASU East Texas Digital Archives Online
  • Panola College Oral Histories Online
  • Mrs. Joyce Worley, Long Branch Community
  • Panola CountySheriff Corbett Akins, 1942-1952
  • Mavis and Mable Bird, Telephone Switchboard Operators, Gary
  • Unnamed Panola County WWII POW in Gemany
  • Bev E. Brown, Carthage
  • Bob Beaty, WW II, Snap Community
  • THIS IS A PARTIAL LISTING. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS FOR YOU TO LISTEN, DOWNLOAD, AND PRINT.


Panola county Bragging Rights

  • Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
  • Tex Ritter Museum
  • Jim Reeves - Singer
  • Walter Prescott Webb - Historian, Author, Force behind The Texas Handbook
  • Tex Ritter - Cowboy Singer, Movie Star
  • Linda Davis - Singer, Entertainer
  • Margie Neal - Suffragette, Female Newspaper Publisher, First Female Texas State Senator, Served in FDR's Administration, 
  • Dr. Mildred Jeferson -  First African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School 1951, Pro-life Activist
  • SGM Milton Holland - First Black Texan Soldier to Receive Medal of Honor, Civil War
  • Bob Harness - Celebrated Artist and Sculptor
  • Donnie Pitchford - Lum & Abner Cartoonist
  • Derek Wayne Johnson - Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer
  • Bill O'Neal - Professor, Author, Speaker, Texas State Historian two terms
  • Dr. Oscar Cooper - Baylor University President 1899 - 1902
  • Thomas Otto Walton - Texas A&M  University President 1925-1943
  • Quintin M. Martin - Veteran, Educator, Principal, CISD Superintendent (1927-1966), Panola College President (1967-1973), Award Winning Watercolor Artist
  • Lincoln King - Educator at Gary ISD, founder of Loblolly Magazine and books created under his tutelage by his students using oral history interviews. Loblolly Magazine was a hugely successful publication about local people, traditions, folklore, folk crafts, and folk history.

BragginG Rights Gallery

Powers Boothe - Actor: Jim Jones, Tombstone, Sudden Death, and many more

    Texas Historical Commission Links

    • Texas Historic Commision
    • Texas Historic Commission Veterans Portal
    • Texas County Historical Commision Brochure
    • Texas Historical Commission Review and Compliance for Local Preservationists 
    • Texas Historical Commission County Historical Commission Orientation & Training
    • Funding Sources for Historical Preservation Projects

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